Local Government Administration Research Articles

Deontologiczne zasady dobrej administracji w dokumentach UE. Uwagi o ich wdrażaniu w Polsce

The proper functioning of local-government administration means not only improving legal and organisational solutions, but mainly officials abiding by ethical principles. Therefore, an important role in the process is played by the ethical standards of good administration referred to in the European Code of Good Administrative Behaviour. The principles apply to the assessment of the operation of public administration. They reflect the duties of the administration towards the citizens. The purpose of this paper is to assess the importance of the principles of ethics as a factor conditioning the efficient operation of local government administration. The questionnaire research carried out among local government staff and their stakeholders enabled the identification of the most frequent irregularities in the work of the officials and indicates the importance of the principles of ethics in the process of eliminating irregularities.

Breaking New Frontiers in Nigeria Commercial Agricultural Sector and the Exigency for Active Involvement of Local Governments

This paper is an assessment of breaking new frontiers in Nigeria commercial agricultural sector and the exigency for active involvement of local governments. It was concluded that unlocking Nigeria’s full agricultural potential requires that Nigeria solve the underlying challenges in its agricultural system, which includes; policy framework, finance and risk management, agricultural technology, political commitment amongst others. The paper recommended that the Local Government Service Commission should be strengthened and accorded constitutional recognition, and given the commission’s laudable objectives, such strengthening would support the human resource and staffing development of local governments in Nigeria, furthermore, Local government administrators in Nigeria should be encouraged to implement the agricultural policies of the government at the grassroots. Keywords: Commercial Agriculture, Third Tier of Government, Grass Root Development, Agricultural Programmes. DOI : 10.7176/JESD/10-6-09 Publication date :March 31 st 2019

Local Government Administration and the Development of Oba Akoko, Akoko South West Local Government, Ondo State, Nigeria

The recognition and importance of local government in the development process is prompted by the imperative to tackle local socio-economic problems and to manage grassroots development, especially through provision of basic infrastructure. The paper therefore, underscores the impacts of local government administration on the development of oba Akoko, Akoko South west Local government, Ondo state, Nigeria. The first stage in the collection of primary data is the reconnaissance survey of the study area where nine quarters in Oba Akoko region was identified, namely; Odooro, Obaju, Owaodo, Irefun, Ekusi, Ode arinkansin, Ibeware, Odokele, Oketere. Fifteen questionnaires were administered in each of the nine quarters through random sampling method, making a total of one hundred and thirty five. Oral interview was also conducted at the local government to elicit vital information on the developmental activities and the challenges among others. The paper reveals inadequate performance of the local government in the area of transportation, infrastructural development and the employment creation. The study further found out that the local government impacts on the local economy and housing were positive. Also, the contribution of the local government concerning combating of crimes was insignificant. The paper reveals that there is poor performance of the local government towards the developmental programmes; also, the local government has not done well in the development activities and assistance to farmers and the artisans were inadequate. The factors hindering the successful implementation of the developmental programmes in Oba Akoko, includes corruption on the one hand and undue interference of the state government concerning local government affairs on the other hand. The paper however recommends among others that; local government allocation should be increased by the federal government, undue interference from governments at the state and federal level should be minimized, while corruption should be discouraged.

Should councils collaborate? Evaluating shared administration and tax services in English local government

ABSTRACTDecentralized public organizations have many advantages, but can be inefficient due to suboptimal organizational size and duplication of activities. Selective inter-organizational collaboration may produce economies of scale without undoing the benefits of decentralization, assuming that co-ordination and re-organization costs are low. The authors tested this popular reform logic using data from all English councils, focusing on shared administration and tax collection. There were no significant benefits from either kind of collaboration.

Improving Human Resource Capacity in the Nigerian Local Government Administration: Challenges and Prospects

Local government administration is at the lowest, yet most critical level of government in a ruraldominated federation such as Nigeria. It is critical to rural and ultimately to national development if properly managed. However, local governments in Nigeria have been incapacitated to function effectively over the years. One of the age-long problems of this important level of government is the ineffective use and development of the human resource of local governments. This is why local government personnel are often perceived as inefficient, inexperienced, unqualified, unskilled and incompetent in the performance of their duties. It is, therefore, recommended in this paper that for local governments to become vibrant and perform their responsibilities to expected standard, the process of their recruitment, training and promotion of their personnel should be strictly in line with merit, staff development and sound personnel management practices.

Fiscal Autonomy and Local Government Administration in Nigeria: A Study of Abeokuta South Local Government Council

Fiscal Autonomy and Local Government Administration in Nigeria: A Study of Abeokuta South Local Government Council

Comentarios sobre la insularidad de La Graciosa en el nuevo Estatuto de Autonomía de Canarias

The new Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands has introduced a serie of interesting features acording to administrative law. The feature that this article focuses is the legal consideration of La Graciosa as an “island.” This new status must be studied in order to understand how the organisational framework of La Graciosa fits in a territorial context as peculiar as the Canary Islands. This requires a study of the system of representation and government of this island in order to equate its new status with the transfer of the appropriate autonomy which should assist it. This autonomy should be materialised in the institutionalisation of the corresponding local government administrations or the reorganisation of its relations with its other administrative levels as the Council of the neighbouring Island of Lanzarote, the Canary Islands Government, and that of the State.

Определение приоритетов местного самоуправления в инфраструктуре здравоохранения с использованием метода аналитической иерархии: Пример местных органов власти в провинции Западная Ява

Infrastructure and health are considered to be crucial investments in many countries in order to sustain their economic growth, including Indonesia. Furthermore, after decentralization in 2001, Indonesian local governments have had the authority to expand both sectors in order to support the acceleration of national economic growth. However, policymakers in the regions are often confronted with many factors in the investment decision-making process, one of which is budget constraints. Therefore, this study aims to prioritize policy in the healthcare infrastructure sector determined by local government administrators in West Java province. A benefit-cost approach was used as an element for characterizing the positive and negative impacts (benefit for positive impact, and cost for negative impact) by period and categories to set the projects’ prioritization which was measured by Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The result shows that the majority of policy makers in the regions provide an assessment with the highest cost-benefit ratio for public health enhancement compared with other alternatives. This means that accessibility to primary healthcare facilities is still the main focus for prioritization and local government administrators prefer to focus on policy where the impact is to increase the health enhancement through expanding coverage of primary health facilities in the sub-district areas. As a policy recommendation, AHP was demonstrated for the effectiveness in the decision-making process for public budgeting, especially in terms of infrastructure investment.

Analysis of using cargo bikes in urban logistics on the example of Stargard

Abstract Contemporary cities are becoming more and more crowded, polluted and devoid of space. At the same time, along with the development of e-commerce, the logistic flows are growing rapidly, which is an increasing challenge for city authorities. Sustainable development of urban logistics is becoming more and more important for the quality of dwellers life, while the solution of two main problems - congestion and poor air quality is the key to success in this field. The use of cargo bikes as a means of transport operating at least part of freight flows within the city has a positive impact on both problems. The article presents the course and results of field research on the use of cargo bikes in urban logistics in Stargard under the Low Carbon Logistic project. Particular attention was paid to the condition of the existing bicycle and road infrastructure in Stargard and the possibility of using cargo bikes for the needs of local government administration. The applied bicycles were also analyzed in terms of adapting their mobility and transport capabilities to the needs of potential users.

Restytucja samorządu lokalnego i regionalnego w państwach Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej

The article is devoted to the restoration of local and regional self-governments in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.The author shows the main directions of formation the local government administration in the post-communist countries.The main subject of the analysis is a group of five countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.The article also presents some Polish aspects of creating self-government structures.

Perspektywy rozwoju ochotniczych straży pożarnych

Development prospects of voluntary fire brigadeVoluntary fire brigade units have been functioning for more than 70 years and have played a very important role in public safety system which since 1995 has been included in national firefighting and rescue system KSRG.In Lower Silesia within the years of national firefighting and rescue system’s functioning the number of units of voluntary fire brigade subordinate to the system has doubled and the growing number of companions in operational and technical units is a sign of its mass scale. Nevertheless, it also indicates the organizational, financial and system responibilities of government and local government administration which need to be introduced in order to take advantage of such a great and numerous potential.The article highlights the fundamental and most significant problems concerning voluntary fire brigade which have occurred in the area of Lower Silesia within the last two years focusing on tasks to be done.

Regulacje konstytucyjne dotyczące samorządów terytorialnych na tle ujęcia historycznego w Polsce

<p>Autor w niniejszym artykule podejmuje analizę obecnych regulacji konstytucyjnych odnoszących się do kwestii władz samorządowych na tle polskich konstytucji. Zaprezentowanie ewolucji polskiego modelu samorządności lokalnej ma służyć ukazaniu procesu formowania się instytucji i praktyki politycznej dotyczącej administracji samorządowej. Wskazano jednocześnie na spory polityczne i doktrynalne dotyczące organizacji i zasad działania polskiego samorządu – szczególnie ta uwaga odnosi się do szczebla regionalnego i powiatowego.</p>

A FRAMEWORK USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN JAPAN TO EVALUATE PROJECTS BASED ON OUTCOMES

Currently, in Japan, women are required to participate and advance in the workplace because of the decline in the labor population. However, it is very difficult for them to do so because of the patriarchal system within Japanese history. In the 1990s, local governments began various projects to encourage women to participate in society. At the same time, local government administrations were introduced to project evaluation to boost the efficiency of their projects. However, project evaluation did not function well because project evaluation needs to be linked to outcomes of the program, and the outcome step was often performed independently. The purpose of this paper is to show how to perform project evaluation to promote women’s active participation in society in Japan. Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, we show how to evaluate projects in a way that can connect to the outcomes of the program. This framework can also be used to calculate the degree of contribution of projects in the program from two perspectives. First, the decision makers in a local government evaluate the outcomes of the program and second, the people in charge of the projects that make up the program do the evaluation for their own projects. In this paper, we evaluated actual projects of a city in Japan and were able to show the direction they should take, such as reduction or expansion for each project in the next fiscal year, by using numerical values obtained in the process of calculation by this framework.

INOVASI DAERAH DARI PERSEPEKTIF REGULASI, KONSEPTUAL, DAN EMPIR (Tinjauan terhadap pasal Pasal 386 Undang-Undang Nomor 23 Tahun 2014 tentang Pemerintahan Daerah)

In Act No. 23 of 2014 there is a chapter that specifically regulates regional innovation. Mentioned that in the framework of improving the performance of Regional Government, Local Government can innovate. Innovation is all form of renewal in the implementation of Regional Government. Initiatives of innovation can come from regional heads, members of parliament, civil state apparatus, regional apparatus, and community members. This regulation becomes a door for the region to make innovations become increasingly clear. Article 386 of the Regional Government Law expressly states, in the framework of improving the performance of local government administration, local government can innovate. Conceptually Rogers (1961) explains that innovation is an idea, practice, or object that is considered new by the individual one unit of other adoption. The variables affecting the innovation diffusion stage include (1) innovation attributes, (2) types of innovation decisions, (3) communication channels, (4) social system conditions, and (5) the role of change agents. West Java Province serve as an example of a region that successfully implemented local innovation. There are three categories of innovation, namely Governance Governance Innovation, Public Service Innovation, and Sectoral Product Innovation. Governance Innovation Governance, aimed at improving Government performance, apparatus professionalism, and expansion of public participation. While Public Service Innovation is designed to build a quality society and competitive. The Sector Product Innovation is designed to build a robust and equitable economy. This success led to the Governor of West Java awarded as Head of Innovative Region 2017. If West Java Province can apply successful regional innovation, why other regions are still afraid to apply it.

Relacje między sektorem publicznym i sektorem pozarządowym w sferze wykonywania zadań publicznych

<p>Celem opracowania jest wskazanie aktualnego modelu współdziałania pomiędzy jednostkami samorządu terytorialnego, a przedstawicielami trzeciego sektora w przedmiocie realizacji zadań o charakterze publicznym na podstawie badań przeprowadzonych z inicjatywy Departamentu Pożytku Publicznego w Ministerstwie Pracy i Polityki Społecznej oraz badań własnych autora. Analiza relacji międzysektorowych z perspektywy administracji samorządowej zostanie oparta na przeprowadzonych badaniach terenowych. Uzyskane wyniki badań w ocenie autora opracowania uprawniają do sformułowania kilku tez. Po pierwsze istniejący model współdziałania pomiędzy sektorem publicznym, a sektorem pozarządowym w zasadzie ogranicza się do ustawowego zlecania zadań publicznych podmiotom niepublicznym w powtarzających się obszarach działalności tj. w zakresie sportu, turystyki rekreacji. Po drugie współpraca w najmniejszych jednostkach podziału terytorialnego państwa (gminach) wydaje się być najsłabsza. Po trzecie przedstawiciele administracji samorządowej nie stosują niektórych rozwiązań wynikających z ustawy o działalności pożytku publicznego i wolontariacie. Po czwarte współpraca międzysektorowa nie uwzględnia realizacji wspólnych projektów z wykorzystaniem środków pochodzących ze źródeł zewnętrznych. Po piąte niedoskonałości w zakresie podejmowanej współpracy międzysektorowej wynikają z braku kultury współdziałania, niewystarczającej wiedzy o specyfice działania organizacji pozarządowych. Ostatnia teza poddana weryfikacji w opracowaniu dotyczy wskazania pozytywnych zmian w obowiązującym modelu współdziałania.</p>

Local Government Administration and Rural Development in Enugu State, Nigeria (2007-2015)

This study examined Local Government Administration and Rural Development in Enugu State, Nigeria under Sullivan I. Chime’s administration, 2007-2015. The source of information for this study is secondary source. Three research questions and three objectives guided this study. The general objective of the study is the relationship between the local government administration and rural development in Enugu State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were: to assess the role of the local government administration in rural development in Enugu State, to investigate whether job creation and provision of infrastructures by the government led to decline in rural-urban migration and to find out the relationship between governments budgetary allocation and rural development in Enugu State. Giving the descriptive and argumentative nature of the paper, qualitative method of data gathering and analysis were adopted in the conduct of the research. The method of data presentation and analysis adopted for this study is the content analytical method. Some findings of the study include that Enugu State worked aggressively and assiduously to achieve developmental projects in different communities towards improving the standard of living. The state also came up with different initiatives/programmes like Visit Every Community (VEC), Free Maternal Child Healthcare (FMCH), Free Basic Education Policy and Songhai Initiative for the development of the state, and it was discovered that government budgetary allocations actually affected the overall development of the rural communities over limited resources. As a result of the above findings, the study made some recommendations which include among others; the roles played by the local governments can be said to be very successful. Though, there is need for the government to increase their function capacity of these projects and programmes to be able to cover every area of the state. Local government needs to diversify their internal revenue sources by engaging in some business ventures like filling stations, transportation, and so on, to be able to compliment the poor budgetary allocation given to them by the federal and state government.

Trust-culture leadership in local public administrators’ work

PurposeTrust and culture are common themes in leadership literature and research. The purpose of this paper is it to describe an emergent model of trust-culture leadership from the comments of local government managers in the USA. The environment of local government requires a level of trust between government and citizens. Comments from local government managers suggest trust is also a component of leading public organizations. The elements of the model culled from practical insights serve to both verify and elucidate much of what is found in leadership theory in a local government context.Design/methodology/approachThis research is based on qualitative interviews of practicing local government managers coupled with an analysis of essays on leadership also written by local government managers.FindingsThe research indicates eight elements of a model divided into three categories (descriptions of leadership in practice, tools and behaviors, and approaches to followers) that help to both describe and perhaps prescribe the work of trust-culture leadership in a local government context.Originality/valueWhile some of what is summarized below is found in leadership literature already, the fact that these elements of leadership are intuitive to local government managers and internalized in their practice is significant. Linking both trust and culture in leadership literature is limited, and linking them both to the practical insights of public managers is even more unique. The findings verify that public leaders at the local level actually engage in leadership of a particular sort, that of trust-culture leadership. It highlights the priority of trust in local government administration. The elements of the model serve to offer public managers specific things to focus on to promote trust-culture leadership and suggest to public leadership scholars specific avenues for further investigation.

PELAKSANAAN FUNGSI DAN TUGAS SATUAN TUGAS SABER PUNGLI KOTA MEDAN BERDASARKAN KEPUTUSAN WALI KOTA MEDAN NOMOR 352/(63.K/2016 TENTANG UNIT KELOMPOK SABER PUNGLI KOTA MEDAN

The implementation of the tasks and the functions of Medan City Illegal Levy Eradication Task Force certainly require standard procedures that can be used as the guidelines for each unit in carrying out the tasks and the operational functions. The implementation of the functions and the tasks of Medan City Illegal Levy Eradication Task Force, in addition to being a preventive and repressive function against the practice of illegal levy in the administration of Medan city government and its staff, it also aims to reform the bureaucracy. Based on the results of research and discussion, Medan City Illegal Levy Eradication, has several functions in carrying out its main tasks, namely intelligence, prevention, prosecution and justice functions. The person in charge of the implementation of the main tasks and functions of Medan City Illegal Levy Eradication Task Force is the mayor of Medan. While the Chief Executive, led by the Deputy Chief of Police of Medan and the Deputy Chief of Police of Belawan. In supporting the prevention function, in each government agency, a unit for illegal levies eradication unit is formed. Illegal Levy Eradication policy has a positive contribution in realizing good governance in the administration of local government. The obstacle of Medan City Illegal Levy Eradication Task Force in carrying out its function of preventing the practice of illegal levy lies in the absence of a change in the legal culture for the better. The legal culture of law enforcement officers and public service bureaucracies is still very bad and has not been able to gain the trust of the public. Keywords : Implementation, Functions and Tasks, Illegal Levy Eradication.

POST-CONFLICT PEACE-BUILDING IN A CONTESTED INTERNATIONAL BORDER: THE NIGERIA-CAMEROON BORDER CONFLICT SETTLEMENT AND MATTERS ARISING

O objetivo deste estudo é analisar as questões decorrentes do acordo de resolução do conflito fronteiriço entre Nigéria e Camarões, que poderia comprometer a “paz fria” entre os dois países; questões relacionadas com as repercussões psicológicas, socioeconômicas e políticas que o método de resolução do conflito e a sua aplicação trouxeram aos indígenas e habitantes da Península de Bakassi, bem como recomendações para uma paz duradoura nesta região problemática. Ao fazer isso, o estudo investiga como o processo de resolução do conflito, com base na decisão da CIJ e no Acordo Green Tree, criou questões mais complexas que encapsulam o interesse do povo de Bakassi, a partir do que deveria ter sido um processo triangular. A análise aqui expõe os danos: psicológicos, sócio-econômicos e políticos produzidos pela maneira peculiar com que o método de resolução do conflito atribuía maior importância ao interesse dos Estados, frente ao significado estratégico da Península e a exclusão de seus habitantes. O estudo traz à tona a necessidade da adoção de uma abordagem alternativa de construção da paz no pós-conflito, em face da ineficácia das abordagens existentes na promoção da paz positiva e desenvolvimento sustentável na região. Ele oferece recomendações que acomodariam o interesse triangular das partes interessadas: Camarões, Nigéria e Bakassi, capturados em uma rede de maneiras que promovam a segurança e o desenvolvimento na África Ocidental. O estudo adota os métodos qualitativos e, a partir dele, o método histórico em termos de coleta, análise e apresentação de dados. A coleta de dados é baseada em fontes primárias e secundárias selecionadas. As fontes primárias incluem dados de evidências orais de trabalho de campo, estudos de notícias, discussão de grupos focais (FGD) etc. Fontes secundárias incluem fontes escritas relevantes para o estudo; documentos de política da Administração do Governo Local de Bakassi, livros, revistas e artigos de periódicos, bem como trabalhos não publicados, teses e dissertações, entre outros. Dados orais para o estudo foram obtidos através de entrevistas pessoais com informantes-chave e discussões de grupo focal (FGDs) realizadas na Área de Governo Local de Akpabuyo no Estado de Cross River, na Nigéria, onde alguns dos Bakassi estão atualmente abrigados e as várias comunidades ao redor da península. Entrevistas orais com o porta-voz das pessoas deslocadas, bem como grupos de especialistas que já trabalham nesta área, ativistas de direito e jornalistas também foram contatadas para os propósitos deste estudo. Na análise e interpretação, o estudo emprega abordagens teóricas de disciplinas relevantes, como história, estudos de paz e conflito, política e direito, aplicando-os à situação histórica associada às preocupações do estudo. Na apresentação, o estudo combina os estilos cronológico, analítico e descritivo.

Status of the chairman of the local government administration in Ukraine: experience of legislative definitions

The article deals with the issue of determining the status of heads of local state administrations in Ukraine in the context of the history of public service. The author focuses on such important aspects as assigning the positions of heads of state executive bodies to the general competence of the regional and subregional levels into the civil service, imposing restrictions on political activity, defining the role of the president, the government and the prime minister in appointing and dismissing said officials, application of competitive procedures, etc. On the basis of the analysis of legislative acts of 1992-2017, comparison and generalization of information from different sources shows how the question arose about the status of heads of local state administrations, which changes occurred in the process of creating the constitutional principles of public administration, the adoption of legislation on civil service, activities government, local state administrations, prevention of corruption, etc. Particular attention is paid to the current state of affairs, which is characterized by the presence of contradictions in the Ukrainian legislation; an increase in the uncertainty of the status of heads of local state administrations as a result of changes to the civil service law (November 2017) regarding their removal from the civil service, removal of restrictions on political activities, etc.The author concludes that there is a lot of experience of the state authorities of Ukraine in this area, the contradictory nature of the actions of the subjects of determining the status of heads of local state administrations, which has manifested itself in the recent period, the need to define the conceptual principles of the consideration of the issue and to make concerted changes to the Ukrainian legislation.